On a brighter (and more interesting note), I came across this article that said that Johnny's Entertainment makes an excess of about 3 billion yen (Approximately $25,538,430 USD) every year~ Wooow.

I dont want to know how much of those were originally mine.

i was qutie taken when i saw the cd. like. how empty it is.
cause i remember "complaining" about how the cover was too much with 8 boys.
we can totally fit another person in beside yamapi *cough-uchi-cough* *cough-fine-cough-kusa-cough-as-well-cough-cough*

What do you mean by the first comment? ^^

hahaha~ You remind me of myself when I first got into NEWS. I didn't know much about them and reading about them from other fans.. I was always dying to know more and more! XD Especially when they would talk about a certain time or whatever.. I'd always be hearing "like when Ryo-chan did blah blah blah" or "Kusano did this and that".. LOL. It made me even more curious to get into them. Eventually.. I was a crazed fangirl. Demo.. being a fangirl is so much fun! But it really does cost to love anything JE. LOL
No need to apologize! ^^

If you guys have any more questions to ask, don't be afraid to ask! If you want any more info on any other members or as NEWS as a whole.. just ask! I'd be happy to lure you guys deeper and deeper into the world of JE.

Well, I'm sure most of you who are new to NEWS were introduced by Yamapi or Ryo-chan.. demo.. I'll post all their profiles!

But get ready! It's a lot!....

Here are their profiles in order of their ages...

KOYAMA

Name: Koyama Keiichiro
Nicknames: Koyama, Haichiyan, Koyamatsucbj (by Kusano), Kei-chan
Date of birth: 1 May 1984
Blood type:O
Birth place: Tokyo
Weight: 53 kg
Height: 175 cm
Zodiac: Aries
Pet: Has cat named Nyantai
Eye Sights: Right-1.0 Left-1.0
Shoe Size: 26.5
Bestfriend in NewS: Kato Shigeaki
School: Meiji University, studying Chinese literature
Character: Friendly to his fans, Sweet, Caring, at times immature, and sometimes too enthusiastic that it takes time to calm him down
Specialty: Plays with himself, Organizing stuff
Family Member: Father, Mother, and 1 older sister
Habit: Touching his hair
Favorite Food: Ramen
Dislike Food: Tomato
Charming Point:Single Eyelids
Weak Point:Waking up early
Hobbies:Walk without a destination
Best Karaoke Song: "NEWS Nippon"
Respected Person: Nagase Tomoya (TOKIO), Domoto Koiichi (Kinki Kids), and a lot more
Treasure: Clothes
Favourite Direction: North
Favorite Smell: Lavender
Collection: TV Guide
Joined JE since: 21 January 2001
Part of JE Unit: J-Support / K.K.Kity / NewS
Ideal Type of Girl: No matter under what circumstances but is still willing to look Positive

More Info on Koyama
- His family owns a ramen shop.
- His older sister who's married a few yrs ago
- He has a cute nephew name "Haruto" (he calls him Haru-chan) ..
- He love his nephew A LOT and talks about him as much as he could
- He sleep with his cat "Nyantai" everynight.
- He can drive and have a car
- He has a ring which he wears it really often

RYO-CHAN

Name: Nikishido Ryo
Nickname: Ryo-chan
Date of birth: 3 November 1984
Blood type: O
Birth place: Osaka
Weight: 52 kg
Height: 170 cm
Zodiac: Scorpio
Shoe Size: 26.5 cm.
Wrist Size: 18.6 cm.
Education: Art School
Hobbies: Ice Ski, Skate, Culinary
Specialty: Basketball, drawing, talk back to others
Motto:Treat other strictly, Treat himself loosely
Treasure: Experience
Weak Points: Monster
Charming Points: His Nose
Skills: Not good at any particular thing, but he talks modestly
Favorite Food: Cold Rice
Dislike Food: Vegetable (but if he has to he can eat them, regardless of amount)
Favorite Place: Beach
Favorite Smell: Shampoo
Favorite Color: Yellow / White
Favorite Direction: West
Eyesight: Left-2.0, Right-2.0
In JE since: 6 September 1997
Respected Person: Domoto Koiichi (Kinki Kids), Kimura Takuya (SMAP)
Ideal Type of Girl: Outgoing
Best Friends: Yamai can't reada Tomohisa, Akanishi Jin, Hasegawa Jun
Reason to join Johnny's: He and his friends sent their resume together
Family Member: Father / Mother / 2 older brother / 1 youger sister
Part of JE Unit: Big West / BBA / Secret Agent / Kanjani 8 / NEWS
More info on Ryo:
-He's allergic to cats
-Admires his father
-He had a very high voice and was very small (1.38m) when he entered JE
-Likes girls who are Kawaii (Cute)
-Dislikes his skin color

YAMAPI

Name: Tomohisa Yamashita
Real Name: Tomohisa Manatsu
Originated from: Four tops
NewS Position: Leader
Birth Date: 9 April 1985
Birth Place: Chiba, Japan
Blood Type: A
Zodiac: Aries
Nicknames: Yama-P, Yamapi, Pi~
Height: 174cm
Weight: 54kg
Measurements: 71cm, 63.5cm, 82cm
Eyesight: Left 1.0, Right 0.3
Shoe Size: 27cm
Character: Dislike losing to others, stubborn and his temper is very bad in the morning.
Weak Points: Don't know how to make people laugh (recently, it's better) and also, he's afraid of being tickle.
Skills: Dancing (of course!)
Special Skills: He can drink malt tea using his nostrils!
Specialty: Know a little bit of mimicking.
Hobbies: Softball and karate.
Interest: Styling, filming etc.
Habit: Forgot to zip his pants!
Lucky Number: 1 & 7
School: Meiji University
Favorite Food: Yogurt, Boiled Egg, etc.
Favorite Colors: Black, White, Red.
Favorite Season: Summer
Favorite Animation: Doraemon and DRAGONBALL Z.
Favorite Word: "Majide?!" ("Really?!")
Favorite Brand: A Bathing Ape
Favorite Thing: Doraemon
Favorite Song: All songs by Southern Allstars
Family Members: Mother and sister.
Pet: A dog named Pi-chan. It was given to him by Masaya Hattori and was named by Hideaki Takizawa. And another dog called Hime-chan.
Best Friends: Toma Ikuta, Jun Hasegawa, Ryo Nishikido (NEWS & Kanjani8) and Akanishi Jin (KAT-TUN).
Ideal Type of Girl: Sincere, cute, gentle with a good character and good cooking.
First Love: During kindergarten
Places that he wanted to go: New York, Hawaii, Bali Island
Jr. History: September 1996 joined Johnny's Jimusho.
Respected Seniors: Hideaki Takizawa (Tackey&Tsubasa), KinKi Kids.
Previous appearances in concerts (not complete): Sugao 2, 3, 109 109 Concert, Happy NEWS Year Concert, Summary, NEWSnow Concert
Dramas (not complete): Kabachitare! (2000), Nishi Ikebukuro Kouen (Ikebukuro West Gate Park I.W.G.P.) (2000), Long Love Letter (2001), Lunch no Jyoou (2002), Stand Up!! (2003), Sore wa Totzunen Arashi no you ni (2004), Dragonzakura(2005). Nobuta wo Produce (2005) Kurosagi (2006)
Short Dramas (not complete): Boys Be… Jr. (1998, Episode 8), P.P.O.I. (1999), Saiaku no Deeto (Episode 1), Kowai no Nichiyoubi, The Boy who Turned into a Bird (2001), Crazy Virgin Road (2003), Budou no Ki (2003) etc.
Variety Shows (not complete): The Shounen Club, The Yoru mo Hippare, USO!? Japan, MUSIC STATION etc.
More info on Yamapi
- Yamapi's weight at birth is 3600mg.
- He joined Johnny's Jimusho because he saw Hideaki Takizawa, Tsubasa Imai and Kawamae in "Mokuyou no Kaidan" and wanted to act in it too.
- His treasures are his family, friends, dreams, his features, jeans and Air Jordan 1.
- When he was young, he loves to go to the park and play with the sandpit!
- Words that he will express to the girl that he like are, "Please be my girlfriend." The more simple, the better.
- He dislike his own fingers because they were too short.
- He also dislike fans making prank calls.
- Sports that he has learnt are karate (from kindergarten to Primary 4 and he's got purple belt), baseball, athletes club (joined in Junior High and the event that he's satisfy with is short running in which he got a record of 7.6 sec in 50m short run) and swimming (learnt it for 2 years).
- The most shocking thing that ever happened to him was when he was transferred to another school and a boy expressed his love to him! Apparently, the boy mistook him for a girl!
- His most unforgettable memory was when he finished running a 20km marathon in Hawaii.
- His target is to be like Hideaki Takizawa (Tackey&Tsubasa).

MASSU

Name: Takahisa Masuda
Nickname: Massu
Originated from: Kis-My-Ft
B-day: 4 July 1986
Birthplace: Tokyo
Blood type: O
Length: 170 cm
Weight: 58.kg
Shoesize: 27.5cm.
Eyesight: Left-2.0, Right-2.0
Zodiac: Cancer
Skills: Swimming
Specialty: Sports
Treasures: Family
Character: Outgoing, very loud
Weak Point: Bugs
Charming Points: The dimple on his right face
Habits: He like to pop his knuckles
Joined JE since: 18 November 1998
Family Member: Father, Mother, 1 older sister
How he joined JE: His elder sister and a friend sended in his resume...
Respects: Kimura Takuya (SMAP), Domoto Koiichi (Kinki Kids) and Takki, because they have their own unique styles
Favourite Smell: Orchid-like sweet smell
Favourite Direction: Tokyo's four corners
Favorite food: Sushi, Jello, & Unagi( don't know this)
Dislike food: None
Best Karaoke Song: "Kuiiretedonokokoro"
Collection: Clothes
Ideal type of girl: One who has pretty eyes...he thinks that a person's eyes reflects they're souls and therefore who has pretty eyes is a nice person.
More Info on Masuda:
-Hand is 19 cm.
-Favorite topping in Ramen: Tamago (egg)
-Favorite Ice cream: Macadamia Nut
-Massu can eat ice cream with a sleveless shirt at 6 degress celcius!
-Called by Ryo kun, "BUTA" a pig
-Onced told by Ryo kun, when Massu was eating a pig sandwich, Ryo kun said that "Aren't you mean to eat your own relatives?" Massu said,"Oh it's fine!"or was that what he said....?
-Voted in Duet the idol who eats the most!
-He is one of the person who gets teased the most!
-When the NewS member were asked what member would be what animal, Ryo kun answered that Massu will be a buta for eating too much and he's fat! And Massu said, that's nice!
-Massu thinks he has the best smile!
-Told by Kato, when the were doing NewS wo Abake(they had a voice changer on the mike)that Massu, when he talks gets cooled down and he is constantly eating and makes people crazy!
-Where did his name come from? He was named Takahisa because the number of strokes suitable for the last name "masuda" was this one.

UCHI

Name: Hiroki Uchi
Nicknames: Uchi, Uchi-kun, Hiro (by family)
Date of Birth: 10 September 1986
Blood type: AB
Birth place: Osaka
Weight: 52 kg
Height: 176 cm
Zodiac: Virgo
Eyesight: Right-1.5 Left-1.5
Shoe Size: 27cm.
Wrist Size: 18 cm.
Habit: Pick his nose
Weak Points: Ears
Specialties: Lift Tegoshi up
Collection: Aroma candles
Hobbies: Watching Movies
Charming Point: His Eyebrows
Ideal Type of Girl: Girl who Cherish herself
Character: Do things according to his own pace
Treasure: Family, Friends, People around him
Favorite Smell: Women
Favourite Direction: Minami no jima no minami (south?)
Favorite Colors: Pink / Red / Blue
Favorite Food: Nutto, Chocolate Ice cream
Dislike Food: Peas
Family Members: Father, Mother, 1 younger sister & brother
Respected Person: Myojo's photographer Tachimoto-san
In JE since: 29 May 1999
Part of JE Unit: V.West / Kanjani 8 / NEWS
How he joined JE: His mom gave him 500 yen and ask him to go casting for JE instead of play baseball cause baseball would make him stink and sweat, he didn't want to and refuse to actually audition (dancing), when his mom drop him off. He wanted to leave but they lock the doors...he insisted the staff to open the door but they didn't, so he sat on a bench and play with his gameboy. Then Johnny-san came out and ask him why he doesn't want to audition and told the staff to open the doors and he also let uchi use his cellphone to call home. Uchi mom freaked out when uchi called home on an old man cellphone and asked why he isn't at the cast. Johnny-san told Uchi mom not to worry and that Uchi pass the cast.
More Info on Uchi:
-He dropped out of school
-He wants to get married at an early age
-He wakes up late
-Likes chocolate
-Admires the sunset
-He admit that he loves his mother very much
-Uchi's mother and father are famous.
-His mother is an actress
-Mom gave birth to him at 18/19 yrs.
-He was the vocalist of V.west
-He can play guitar
-He has a dog named LEON (A little white terrier)
-He himself says he looks like a pocky (long thin biscuits) because he is skinny

SHIGE

Name: Katoh Shigeaki
Nickname: Shige
Date of birth: 11 July 1987
Blood type: A
Birth place: Osaka
Weight: 55 kg
Zodiac: Cancer
Height: 175 cm.
Shoe Size: 27.5 cm.
Eye Sights: Right-0.3 Left-0.4
Pets: A dog named Nana given to him by Yokoo Wataru from Kis-my-ft .. (Ex. kkkity dude)
Specialty: Put his entire fist into his mouth, sleeps early and wakes up early
Collection: Cactus (his record was 31)
Weak Points: Gets fooled easily
Charming Points: Eyes
Treasure: Friends
Character: He'll make sure what he's wearing tomorrow before he sleeps and gets hurt easily over trifles
Favourite Food: Yakiniku (Japanese BBQ)
Dislike Food: Pumpkin
Favorite Direction: South
Favorite Color: Red
Favorite Smell: Meals that elementary school gave out
Best Karaoke Song: "Garasu no Sonen" of Kinki Kids
Habit: Play with his nose
Hobbies: Guitar
Family Members: Father and Mother
Ideal Type of Girl: Someone that is similar to a cat
Joined JE since: 17 April 1999
Respected Person: Sakurai Sho (Arashi)
Part of JE Unit: J-Support / K.K.Kitty / NewS
More info on Shigeaki:
-He loves to tease people.
-He like telephones and loves to play around like a kid some times
-He goes to Aoyama Gakuen(A Private School)
-His Best friend is Keiichiro.
-He is a fake smile genius.
-He can't speak Osaka-ben fluently
-He named his dog Nana because his bday is on July(7th month)

TEGOSHI

Name: Tegoshi YuYa
Nicknames: Tegoshi, Kouya, Tego, Tetsun, Tegonyan (by Ryo-chan)
Date of Birth: 11 November 1987
Blood type: B
Birth place: Kanagawa
Weight: 52 kg.
Height: 165 cm.
Zodiac: Scorpio
Shoe Size: 26 cm.
Eye Sights: Right-0.8 Left-0.8
Family Members: Father, Mother
Specialties: Singing, able to fall asleep very fast
Character: Sports and gets annoyed very easily
Habit: Licks lips
Collection: Mysteries
Weak Points: Ticklish
Charming Points: Eyes
Treasure: Family, Friends, Fan and his dog
Hobbies: Karaoke, Soccer
Favorite Smell: Sweet Smell
favorite Direction: North
Favorite Food: Ramen
Dislike Food: Green Pepper
Ideal Type of Girl: Cute and will only love him
Respected Person: Yamai can't reada Tomohisa (NEWS), Kimura Takuya (SMAP)
Date Joined Johnny's: 2002/12/1

More Info on Yuya
- If his girlfriend suddenly feels sick, he would carry the girl in his arms
...like a princess (face to face)
- His bedroom floor is light brown
- On his free time, he watch DVDs, Studying lyrics, and dance to the concerts.
- He thinks that living 85 years is ideal.
- when he's hungry, but isn't the right time to eat, he drink a cup of milk
- Tegoshi needs 2 alarm clocks to wake him up
- has blue and white curtains
- He is not good in arts and crafts
- On a date, he'd want to hold hands, link arms, and hold shoulders!
- he'd give a girl a forget-me-not as a gift (symbolizing true love)
- He likes caramel frappuchinos
- He wanted to be the battousai from rurouni kenshin
- He sleeps with a dolphin pillow
- He's scared of ghosts!
- He likes blue hawaii flavored shaved iced
- Has a Papillon named Teeny (or Tiny?) and he calls her his girlfriend (cho kawaii! XD)

KUSANO

Name: Hironori Kusano
Nickname: Kusano, Hiro, Kusatsuchi (by Koyama), Notti
Zodiac: Aquarius
Birthday: 15 February 1988
Hometown: Kanagawa
Blood type: B
Height: 170 cm.
Weight: 55 kg.
Shoe Size: 29 cm.
Eye Sights: Right-2.0 Left-2.0
Family Member: father, Mother, 1 older & 2 younger sister
Pet: 1 mini dachshund "Ricky"
Joined JE Since: 2001/2/4
Favorite Jr.: Kamenashi Kazuya
Best Karaoke Song: "Ro-gi"
Character: Outgoing, Do things at his own pace
Charming Points: 4 Moles (below left eye)
Weak Points:Ticklish
Habit: Touches nose
Hobbies: Reading, sleeping, listening to music
Collection: Winnie the Pooh
Treasure: Family
Favorite food: Curry rice, omuenrice
Dislike food: Spicy and bitter food, green pepper, eggplant, and tomato
Favorite Smell: Soap or Shampoo
Good cooking: Fried rice
Favorite Direction: Northwest
Favorite color: blue - white - black
Dislike color: black !?!
Favorite Season: Winter
Not good at (subject): english
Dislike subject : math
Specialty: Baseball
Ideal Type of Girl: Kind, Cheerful, and Treat other nicely
Respected Person: All the members of SMAP, Kamenashi Kazuya (KAT-TUN)
Part of JE Unit: Supporting / J-Support / K.K.Kitty / NewS
More info on Kusano:
-Likes Chocolate Ice cream.
-His hand is 18.5 cm.
-Thinks he's the best singer in NewS
-He said he made someone faint with his songs
-Massu said in AiQgekijyou that Darling(Shoon)changed as much as Kusano changed his hair from a year ago to now.....and Shoon answered no I haven't changed THAT much!
-Likes mature girls not older girls!!!
-His ringtone is vibration (on silent mode)
-His phone wallpaper is a picture of the sakura in the park that he took.
-When he thinks of the Natsu Matsuri (Summer Festival), he thinks of Takoyaki.
-Believes in fortune telling.
-Takes at least 20 minutes to bathe.
-Animal to describe the kind of girl he likes: Cheetah
-Likes strawberry flavored smoothies.
-Most important time of the day: Sleeping
-Wears a sleeveless shirt when he sleeps.
-Favourite number: 1363
-When he picks up the phone his first sentence is: "Moshi Moshi (Hello)" and his last sentence is: "Oyasumi (Good night)"
-Most frequently send text messages to Shige.
-Thinks Tegoshi is the luckiest member in NewS.
-Thinks he memorise dance steps fastest in NewS.
-When eating bento, he will eat his favourite food first then eat the rest.
- Takes the role of accounting in NewS .
- Likes girls that make curry bento for him.

all credits go to my wonderful mama admin Thao and the rest of my NP family at NewS Paradise forums. <3 LOL
(Some stuff in their profiles were added by me as well ^^)

thats true. cause you can judge by yamapi's hair ... XDDDD!!
don't you know that tegoshi LITERALLY has a crush on yamapi .....
why is yamapi kissing him ... like ... triggering him ???

LOL. I KNOW! ryo's like " ... erm... i am not kame .... nor tegoshi ...... back off yamapi."
heres the rest of the myojo =)
(again, i can zip the orginals up if anybody wants to read them or have a larger print)










since i have 1 more space ... heres an extra of the members being so in love with one another.
*O* @ ryo's super smile at laser eyes

^huh? Massu or massau, is a food? hah Confusing here. Knock me on the head.

POU!!! *glomps* Where have you been?! I miiiiiss you! XD

*coughs* NEWS... <3
ROFL

*glomps back* xD
miss you too stef<333
i'm on my finals TOT
where's lemmy and sonya? T_T
wow! there're a lot of new NEWS' fans here *waves* hi guys
take good care of my pi *coughs* lol

What does can't reada mean? I don't really get this phrase.

That's the Soompi swear filter. Since Yamashita has the word sh*t in it, it automatically filters it to be can't read. But.. hahaha~ I found a loophole on how to type his name. XD

I think for Johnny's Entertainment, its not about keeping a certain group at top but more as keeping the company on top. As long as any JE group is on the top, whether it be NEWS, KAT-TUN, Kanjani8, whoever, thats all that matters. As a NEWS fan, I'm glad they were on top as long as they could but also, I'm glad for KAT-TUN as well. As a JE fan, I'm glad that JE is dominating the Oricon charts in general.

teshi-bear:
well. if NEWS is on top for a month, then kat-tun takes over next month... then kanjani8 takes over next month, then t&t, then tokio, then SMAP for 2 months, then arashi for another month, then kinki kids another month, then v6 .... that would be all year round.... if they spaced it out.
anyways. whatever. i think there are a lot more factors are put into these dates and stuffs, not just "so we can dominate the rankings" ^^

I thought I was using my username. Dummy me. I hate when this happen.

WingL: ahah your statement are funny. I love reading them. Yeah, I heard Takuya is the original these days. eheh

I don't know about you guys but I feel stress the fact that KT debute. lol This morning I read that KT was number one, I feel so stress at school. I think I shouldn't feel stressed. I just put too much pain into me. I think I have expect too much.lol

I hate it when a company release two good group of singer or solo singer. It will always be like this one is promoted more and the other one don't get attention at all.

I still support NEWS all the way.

I understand where you're coming from and yeah, I do think that Sayaendou was suppose to release in April. However, KAT-TUN's debut was planned for March 22 and that was before the Kusano incident. So of course, I'm sure when they planned for KAT-TUN's debut, they expected them to be on top during March and for the release of Sayaendou, NEWS would be on top for April. But since JE was already making plans to put NEWS on self reflection after May, they probably thought that releasing the single earlier would be better so that it would have time to have exposure or whatever. I dunno, its hard to explain. I suck at explaining thins. ><*

What I dont get is why JE decided to have K8's album and Sayaendou release on the same day. Now that I dont get.

But overall, I'm happy if any JE group is on top in the Oricon charts. Yes, I'd be 10x happier knowing it were NEWS but as long as its JE, I'm a happy camper.

hi i'm also a newbie into jpop teeheee..i got curious coz i just finished watching nobuta..and i'm currently watching gambatte..and i fell in love with uchi!!!!

can anybody explain why news became 6-membered? coz i used to think there were 8 of them. and and (hehhe i just read from this last page upto page 53..my eyes couldn't take it anymore akekeke) what happened to uchi?? he suddenly disappeared aheheh

no offense to any kat-tun fans, but i really do like sayanedou better than real face. just my personal preference. i know the media is favouring kat-tun a lot, esp this peroid. so ya..... giving kat-tun a big advantage.

=) ( i am so convinced by my own theory of why julie put NEWS, Kanjani8, and KAT-TUN within a week that i think i should start teaching a university course called.... um... "johnny entertainment's business strategies and their adminstation methods and.... etc"
the exam would be something like "match the following baby pictures to the johnny boys below" and "design new hair styles for johnny boys, include diagrams please. please be original, do not use takuya's hairstyles." (honestly, that guy is the original for all hair styles today!!!)